Odessa Grady Clay
Odessa Grady Clay was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States on February 12th, 1917 and is the Family Member. At the age of 77, Odessa Grady Clay biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Odessa Lee Clay (née O'Grady; February 12, 1917 – August 20, 1994) was the mother of three-time World Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Rahman Ali, as well as Laila Ali's paternal grandmother.
Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., was born in the 1930s and spent a while as a household maid to help her young children.
Early life
She was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, and was one of six children of John Lewis O'Grady and Birdie B. Morehead's. Abe O'Grady, a white Irishman who immigrated to the United States from Ennis, County Clare, soon after the Civil War, married Lewis and Amanda J. "Mandy" Walker of Todd County, Kentucky, was born. Tom Morehead (1837-1913), her maternal grandfather, was the son of a white man whose surname was Morehead and a slave woman named Dinah. During the war, Morehead served in the 122nd United States Colored Troops.
Clay's parents separated when she was young, and her mother worked as a maid, taking care of the household chores and the young children of a white family. Clay was partially raised by her aunt. She dropped out of school and then found herself as a domestic as an adolescent. Cassius, a sixteen-year-old girl, was referred to as "cash" by the people. They married and settled in Louisville, Kentucky, soon. The Clays' union was tense. "She's afraid of him," Ali told boxing promoters.